http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com Every day across America, nearly a million American kids age 12 to 17 abuse a pain reliever for the very first time just to get high. If you do the math, that’s nearly a million kids a year risking their lives -- or at the very least, risking a life... http://www.articlealley.com/article_658228_17.html 07th October 2008 According to many recent national and state surveys, more kids are abusing more prescription drugs than ever, exceeding all illegal street drugs combined. Parents are being urged to help turn around a situation that could see millions of young Americans... http://www.articlealley.com/article_655374_17.html 02nd October 2008 Millions of American children are being force-fed prescription drugs that most of them -- and some experts think all of them -- don’t need, opening the door to potential drug abuse, dependence and prescription drug ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_655329_17.html 02nd October 2008 What are supposed to be medicine -- the products from pharmaceutical companies -- are killing more people in America than cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and all other “street” drugs, combined. And prescription... http://www.articlealley.com/article_654668_17.html 02nd October 2008 Over the past few years the dangers of prescription drugs have been widely publicized by the deaths of celebrities like Heath Ledger and Anna Nicole Smith, both of whom died as a result of overdoses and complications from <a href="http://www.novusdetox.... http://www.articlealley.com/article_653564_17.html 01st October 2008 The abuse of prescription and over the counter medications is the most troubling trend on today’s drug landscape, says the Partnership for a Drug Free America. And more treatment programs need be made available for victims of <a href="http://www.novusde... http://www.articlealley.com/article_624209_17.html 08th September 2008 A real eye-opener for anyone interested in seeing what’s going on across the country in the world of prescription drugs is to type the drug’s name into a major search engine, such as Google or Yahoo. Simply click on “News” about the drug, and scan... http://www.articlealley.com/article_603890_17.html 20th August 2008 The tragic death of Malibu, CA, resident Christopher Quint recently from a lethal combination of alcohol and the benzodiazepine Xanax, illustrates the soaring epidemic of deaths across the country from prescription drug addiction, especially when mixed wi... http://www.articlealley.com/article_600650_17.html 16th August 2008 America’s best-known addiction expert has told an Australian newspaper that actor Heath Ledger was very likely the victim of prescription drug addiction. Los Angeles-based radio and television host, Dr. Drew Pinsky, says Ledger's drug taking was well... http://www.articlealley.com/article_599744_17.html 15th August 2008 Australian citizens are up in arms about hundreds of thousands of prescriptions for SSRI-type anti-depressants such as Zoloft and Prozac being written for children despite warnings that they’re unsafe for anyone under 24, and all paid for with tax dolla... http://www.articlealley.com/article_596103_17.html 13th August 2008 More people are dying in Montana from prescription drug overdoses than from all other drugs of any other kind, including illicit street drugs like heroin and cocaine. And officials across the state are ramping up awareness of the problem, while dealing wi... http://www.articlealley.com/article_594986_17.html 12th August 2008 Eighty-five percent of the 365 web sites selling highly addictive and dangerous controlled substances require no prescription, according to a study just released by Columbia University researchers, a situation that is seriously hampering efforts to curb p... http://www.articlealley.com/article_586021_17.html 23rd July 2008 A panel of addiction experts say Nevada’s skyrocketing abuse of prescription narcotics -- the highest in the nation -- is caused by doctors who don’t take the time to examine a patient’s history and source of pain, leading to inadequate treatment a... http://www.articlealley.com/article_585986_17.html 23rd July 2008 On August 18, 2006, only eighteen years old and three days away from her first day in college, Emily Jackson swallowed a single OxyContin tablet, and soon thereafter died. Emily is only one of hundreds of Americans, and thousands world-wide, who have lost... http://www.articlealley.com/article_581535_17.html 20th July 2008 Can you imagine an 11-year-old 5th-grader needing drug detox for Xanax -- or any drug? As appalling as the concept may seem, news reports across the country reveal that prescription drug abuse in middle schools these days isn’t unusual. And Xanax, one o... http://www.articlealley.com/article_541911_23.html 20th May 2008 According to two recent Australian studies, the use of naltrexone implants to treat drug dependency should be stopped because of reports of severe adverse reactions. But even if the so-called “treatment” was safe, treating a drug addiction with a repl... http://www.articlealley.com/article_541019_17.html 20th May 2008 Someone needs to make it very clear -- to kids and adults of all ages -- that benzodiazepines mixed with other drugs or alcohol kills a lot of people every year. In fact, if you’re regularly mixing benzos with other drugs or alcohol, you’re probably... http://www.articlealley.com/article_528117_17.html 01st May 2008 Police seizures of the opiate addiction maintenance drug buprenorphine are skyrocketing in Baltimore, MD, and according to officials it is typical of a national trend. Under publicly funded "addiction maintenance" programs, addicts are being prescribed wh... http://www.articlealley.com/article_524804_17.html 28th April 2008 For nearly two decades, rapid opiate detox programs have been touted in the media and on the Internet as "the big new detox thing", and the promotional claims have continued. But after 20 years, this often inordinately expensive and frequently dangerous p... http://www.articlealley.com/article_523818_17.html 27th April 2008 Far too many people, especially those who have never been addicted to anything, consider addiction a "life-style choice" -- something an addict could stop if he or she "really wanted to" and wasn’t so "weak-willed." Such opinions show ignorance of the s... http://www.articlealley.com/article_517890_23.html 16th April 2008 The early-90s movie Ricochet, starring Denzel Washington, graphically depicted how drug addiction can be forced on someone against their will. Just like Gene Hackman’s tough Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in the 1971 thriller The French Connection, Denz... http://www.articlealley.com/article_517832_17.html 16th April 2008 Florida pharmacists, doctors and law enforcement favor a statewide prescription drug monitoring program to help curb crime, save lives and protect patients from inadvertent harm. Some state reps fear invasion of patient privacy, overlooking not only tha... http://www.articlealley.com/article_514860_17.html 10th April 2008 At a time when drug abuse and addiction have reached record levels across America, and government agencies from the White House down are involved in serious efforts to provide more treatment facilities, the State of Kentucky is considering a bill that cut... http://www.articlealley.com/article_511705_17.html 07th April 2008 If you think drinking alcohol is a normal and acceptable social activity, you have a lot of company. The vast majority of Americans never think about the potential disaster they might cause by driving home after hoisting a few, let alone the risk of alcoh... http://www.articlealley.com/article_511654_17.html 07th April 2008 Who would think that having a sore neck or back could wind someone up in a drug detox? Yet when back pain is bad enough or lasts so long it’s intolerable, a common solution is to see your doctor. Unfortunately, such a solution can lead to even worse ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_510920_23.html 07th April 2008 Looking over the current news about the opioid painkiller OxyContin, we can see there’s not much change today from any other day in the last year or so. This is a drug that, despite its usefulness for helping serious chronic pain sufferers, has created ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_509923_17.html 06th April 2008 While the New York medical examiner was recently deciding to rule actor Heath Ledger's death "an accident" – the brilliant young star of “Brokeback Mountain” died last week from a lethal combination of six different prescription drugs – a Britis... http://www.articlealley.com/article_488464_17.html 10th March 2008 According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) there are 1400 alcohol-related deaths in the U.S. every year. It is easy to imagine these must be hapless losers lying in doorways, or tragic victims of drunken drivers – a fate... http://www.articlealley.com/article_195949_17.html 02nd August 2007